At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Lead the future of security automation at Amazon by building and directing teams that leverage agentic AI systems to protect one of the world's largest technology ecosystems. You'll be at the forefront of developing proactive autonomous security capabilities that safeguard Amazon's infrastructure, customers, and innovations at global scale.

• Key job responsibilities
• Lead and grow a team of software engineers developing AI-powered security automation solutions.
• Own the technical vision and architecture for next-generation security products.
• Drive strategic technical decisions in partnership with senior leadership.
• Establish and maintain high standards for engineering excellence and operational performance.
• Collaborate across Amazon's ecosystem to deliver security solutions that scale with our business.
• Mentor and develop engineering talent while building a strong technical culture.

A day in the life
Strategic Leadership (Morning):
Lead global team stand-ups and align daily priorities
Review security metrics and operational health
Drive critical technical decisions and architecture reviews

Stakeholder Management (Mid-day):
Collaborate with product and business leaders on roadmap
Partner with cross-functional teams on integration initiatives
Provide mentorship through 1:1s with team members

Technical & Innovation Focus (Afternoon):
Guide implementation of AI/ML security solutions
Ensure technical excellence through code reviews
Drive strategic planning and resource optimization

The role balances technical leadership, people management, and strategic planning while working across global time zones to deliver innovative security solutions for Amazon.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture:

In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth:

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Basic Qualifications

• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
• Experience in leading the definition and development of multi tier web services
• Experience working directly within engineering teams
• Experience managing engineers
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience partnering with product and program management teams
• Experience in engineering

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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